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Ivaline vs Ivan

American parents have registered 150,787 Ivans since 1880, against 8 Ivalines. Ivan is still ahead, with 2,240 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Ivaline against Ivan, 1880 to 2025 0 1k 2k 3k 4k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Ivaline Ivan

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Ivan has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1925, when Ivaline had 8 and Ivan had 761.

Side by side

  Ivaline Ivan
Total US births 8150,787
Most in one year 83,479
Babies in 2025 under 52,240
Estimated living today 0123,000
Median age today 10021
Peak year 19252004
Best rank 3,664th girls117th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked162nd
First recorded 19251880
Girls / boys 8 / 0650 / 150,137

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Ivalines alive today are over 100; half the Ivans are over 21. That is 79 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Ivaline and Ivan.